I Owe Everything I Am And Everything

She Was Brilliant And Joyous And She Believed- Probably Correctly- That Libraries Contain The Answers To All Things, To Everything, And That If You Can't Find The Information You Seek In The Library, Then Such Information Probably Doesn't Exist In This Or Any Parallel Universe Now Or Ever To Be Known. She Was Thoughtful And Kind And She Always Believed The Best Of Everybody. She Was, Above All Else, A Master Librarian And She Knew Where To Find Any Book On Any Subject In The Shortest Possible Time. And She Was Wonderfully Unhinged.

Patience, He Thought. So Much Of This Was Patience - Waiting, And Thinking And Doing Things Right. So Much Of All This, So Much Of All Living Was Patience And Thinking.

Adults Are Locked Into Car Payments And Divorces And Work. They Haven't Got Time To Think Fresh.

Name The Book That Made The Biggest Impression On You. I Bet You Read It Before You Hit Puberty. In The Time I've Got Left, I Intend To Write Artistic Books - For Kids - Because They're Still Open To New Ideas.

The Essence Of War Is Insanity. Destruction, Death, Women Widowed, Children Orphaned, Lands Plundered, Property Destroyed, Lives Decimated - It's All Bad.